The first introductive session will be hosted by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES’ director), Chiara Mengozzi (FF UK, associate researcher at CEFRES) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK).
Jerôme Heurtaux and Mitchell Young will introduce the seminar and present general remarks about concepts and their uses in humanities and social sciences.
Chiara Mengozzi will review the achievement of the epistemological seminar so far, propose some ideas for the present academic year and briefly introduce the question of “migration” of concepts and theories from one discipline or context to another.
To introduce this session, we shall base our discussion on the following texts:
- John Gerring, “What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences”, Polity 31-3, 1999, p. 357-393.
- Bastien BOSA, „Des concepts et des faits. La double contradiction des sciences sociales“, Labyrinthe 37 2011-2, p. 121-147.
To get the texts, please write to Claire Madl (claire[at]cefres.cz)
During this session, the program of the winter semester will be set up.
Seventh session of the 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Lucie Trlifajová (FSV UK / associate at CEFRES)
Regaining Control, Reconstituing Citizenship: Welfare Policies in Decaying Regions
Where: CEFRES – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1, 3rd floor, entrance C
When: Thursday 17 May 2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Yuval-Davis, Nira. Introduction. Framing the questions, in: (id.) The politics of belonging: Intersectional contestations. Sage 2011, pp. 1-25.
Sixth session of 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Florence Vychytil-Baudoux (CEFRES – EHESS)
Transborder Societies : Diaspora and its Limits as an Analytical Concept
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 03.05.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Rogers Brubaker, “The ‘Diaspora’ Diaspora”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28.1 (Jan. 2005), pp. 1-19.
Fifth session of the 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by two PhD students:
Jan Koutník (FSV UK): Competitive Authoritarianism
and
Jamal Yazliyeva (FSV UK): Media Censorship
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1, 3rd Floor, Entrance C
When: Thursday 19. 4. 2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Texts:
- Levitsky and Way, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 1-36.
- Irum Saeed Abbasi and Laila Al-Sharqi, “Media censorship: Freedom versus responsibility. Review”, Journal of Law and Conflict 7(4), August 2015, p. 21-25.
Fourth session of the 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Ania Gnot (University of Opole / Institute of Czech Literature AV ČR / CEFRES)
Point of View: Autofiction As a Genre
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 05.04.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Małgorzata Czermińska, “‘Point of View’ as an Anthropological and Narrative Category in Nonfiction Prose”, Teksty Drugie, 2012-2, p. 140-155.
Third session of the 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Katerina Zheltova (IMS FSV UK)
Approaching the Borderlands: Cultural Intimacy as Theory and Practice
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Michael Herzfeld, “Introducing Cultural Intimacy”, in Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State, New York and London, Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-33.
